I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cell
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No new brain cells are produced after birth.
brain/liver/nerve etc damage
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If you drink a lot of alcohol it can cause liver damage.
conquer your nerves/fear
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She was determined to conquer her fear of flying.
jar on...nerves
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The screaming was starting to jar on my nerves .
nerve cell
nerve centre
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the ship’s nerve center
nerve gas (= a poisonous gas used in war to kill or paralyse people )
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Troops were exposed to low levels of nerve gas during the conflict.
nerve gas
steady...nerves
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Tamar took a deep breath to steady her nerves .
trapped nerve
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pain from a trapped nerve
war of nerves
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
facial
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Both groups belong to the facial branchial motor nerve .
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Still others point to pressure on the facial nerve as it passes through the skull.
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The transgene staining is co-localized with the cell bodies of the facial nerve .
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The cause is unknown but is thought to involve an inflammation of the facial nerve .
optic
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The optic nerves were studied after 2 days.
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Frequent measurements of visual fields and acuity are obtained to detect optic nerve damage.
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In a, optic nerve sections were prepared as described in Fig. 1.
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They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body via connections with the optic nerve and spinal cord.
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The animals were sacrificed 60min later and optic nerve cell suspensions were prepared as previously described.
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A swollen optic nerve found by her optometrist led to the discovery of the tumor.
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The cup becomes the retina, and the stalk connecting it to the brain the optic nerve .
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Enough of the eye came free to please Magee, though, and he watched as it dangled on the optic nerve .
peripheral
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The underlying pathology is a widely distributed inflammatory lesion in peripheral nerves , with adjacent demyelination.
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Hypothyroidism may affect equilibrium by its effect on the eighth cranial nerve and on the peripheral nerves.
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They are almost entirely produced by damage to peripheral nerves or to roots or to the central nervous system.
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This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man.
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Many trophic factors can influence axonal growth and neuronal survival during nervous system development and in the regeneration of peripheral nerves .
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Several lines of evidence point to specific components of the peripheral nerve environment that support regeneration.
raw
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This attack was repeated again in 1987 in the Federation magazine, for the report had obviously hit a very raw nerve .
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The subject of hawkers had touched a raw nerve .
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He's just a raw nerve .
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Touched on a raw nerve , they can react accordingly.
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Our article touched a raw nerve .
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Just as the poll tax impost jarred on an historically raw nerve , so will the ban on fox-hunting.
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Yet they perhaps unwittingly also touched upon the raw nerve of vital, popular fears.
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Had she worried a raw nerve with that remark?
sensitive
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Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated, there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves .
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Teeth usually become less sensitive as their nerve and blood supply decreases.
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It was easy, therefore, to touch the sensitive nerve of nationalism.
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This can throw the spine out of alignment and press on sensitive nerves in your back and legs.
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This touched upon a sensitive nerve with regard to confidence in the leadership.
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Other issues touch sensitive local nerves .
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And not just Ford buyers: Options instantly touched such a sensitive nerve that other makers rushed to promote similar schemes.
sensory
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Capsaicin destroys small sensory nerve fibres if it is injected under the skin of newborn rats.
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Important in the control of gait is the afferent input of the sensory nerves .
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As usual, capsaicin had the effect of destroying small sensory nerve cells.
■ NOUN
cell
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This opened the issue of how nerve cells might communicate with each other and eventually led to our now-sophisticated understanding of neurotransmitters.
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Those signals are carried from nerve cell to nerve cell by chemical messengers called neurotransmitters.
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The Vienna doctors say that D-proline is neurotoxic, which means that it can kill brain and other nerve cells .
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The effects of the virus on nerve cells , which control muscle movements, vary significantly.
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Is there a gene for each nerve cell ?
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It increases the firing of some nerve cells , or neurons, while decreasing the firing of others.
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In the same way, nerve cells in the spinal cord show activity whenever a particular movement is made by the arm.
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The final question was whether the virus entered the bloodstream before it attacked nerve cells .
center
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The metro desk is the nerve center of any newsroom.
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That is the nerve center , where score is kept on all wing activities.
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He has turned out to be the nerve center of the vastly improved defense.
centre
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Repairing the midsole, often the nerve centre of the modern shoe, can be more difficult.
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The battle bus was not the great nerve centre of the nation which it might have appeared.
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It was the nerve centre of the strike operations ....
damage
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But please hurry up if you want to avoid the nerve damage and deformity that result from long-term exposure to the germ.
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Frequent measurements of visual fields and acuity are obtained to detect optic nerve damage .
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In all 16 cases he found nerve damage .
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That, he said, suggests better opportunities for diagnosing nerve damage , and better chances for rehabilitating injured patients.
ending
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This absence of feeling, I dismissed as damaged nerve endings .
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Your nerve endings bristle at the slightest movement.
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Neurotransmitters are chemicals that are released at nerve endings and control the signals between nerves and nerves and muscles.
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Slightly less obvious but essential to the winding up of the nerve endings is Michael Carr's neglect of his wife.
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There is no evidence that the nerve endings near the brain of the fish can transmit pain.
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So he hopes to come up with a special X-ray stain binding to human nerve endings .
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A cell's true nature is realized when it becomes skin or bone or nerve ending .
fibres
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In nervous communication, messages are carried as electrical impulses in nerve fibres .
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Capsaicin destroys small sensory nerve fibres if it is injected under the skin of newborn rats.
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All nerve fibres and terminals present seemed normal in number and morphology.
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The first component in this classical stimulus-response link is specific injury-detecting nerve fibres , the nociceptors.
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This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man.
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In flatworms all that exists is a simple network of nerve fibres .
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The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other.
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Even under the microscope, it is hard to detect any structure, because of the bewildering variety of nerve fibres criss-crossing one another.
gas
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The nerve gas would only be released if the incorrect code was programmed twice into the computer.
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Yep, that Soviet nerve gas , all hooked up to a computerized bomb.
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A new form of nerve gas ?
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And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.
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The fact was he had broken a Senate tie back in 1983 and voted for the production of nerve gas .
impulse
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The breakdown of the insulation layer short-circuits nerve impulses and produces devastating consequences.
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First of all, the brain controls many bodily functions, either directly via nerve impulses or indirectly via hormones.
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More effective drugs had their origin in the basic research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses described in chapter 4.
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This traveling wave of altered electrical potential is called an action potential, more commonly known as a nerve impulse .
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The sensation only occurs when the nerve impulse reaches the brain.
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Many animals have a single lens used to focus light on to a plate able to convert it into nerve impulses .
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To jump over the gap between two cells, a nerve impulse has to be translated from electricity to chemicals and back.
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The unlocking of the receptor leads to the creation or suppression of a nerve impulse in the second cell.
motor
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This is the normal position of the trigeminal motor nerve .
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Both groups belong to the facial branchial motor nerve .
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Mutations in pros alter neuronal fates and delay or prevent pioneering of motor nerves during embryogenesis.
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Between 9.5-10.5 d.p.c. the retinoic acid-induced ectopic expression of Hox-B1 also appears in the motor nerve associated with r2/3.
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The accessory antennal nerves issue from the antennal lobes and are the motor nerves of the antennae.
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The movement of fluid in the motor nerve then caused the actual movement.
■ VERB
calm
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It was refreshing, and did much to calm her shaken nerves .
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A lot of mineralization is needed to create a sedative effect, calm the nerves and promote sound sleep.
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Chopra moved between them, calming their fractious nerves .
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Norma sat silently in the kitchen of their home, drinking coffee and trying to calm her nerves .
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She calms her shattered nerves with the music of top Co Donegal-born singing star Enya.
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The presence of a baby calmed his nerves and soothed his spirit, like drawing and painting.
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She took a few deep breaths to calm her nerves .
fail
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Then, hurrying lest her nerves fail her too, she unbuckled her seat-belt and climbed out.
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If the nerve fails to pass on the correct signals, the limb becomes useless.
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Only when the cane cracked down across his hand did the boy's nerve fail .
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The reason the case did not progress or became involved is right there-your nerve failed you.
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Norwich's nerve hasn't failed them and according to their players, it won't.
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The solution seemed so grotesque that his nerve almost failed him.
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In some cases the optic nerve fails to develop before birth.
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She looked at him dumbly, and even McLeish's hardened investigator's nerve failed him.
feel
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But I must admit, when I think about Thursday night I feel absolutely sick with nerves .
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I could feel each nerve in my body.
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Meredith felt as if her nerves were strung on a line.
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I could feel those nerves wriggling now like a hive of worms; they were flinching as the wind rode by.
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Once more she felt her nerves quivering with apprehension, but when Helen came in she managed to hide her fears.
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The silence vibrated with tension, and Polly felt her nerves stretch almost to snapping point.
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He felt his nerve breaking and terror began to overtake his mind.
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Polly felt her nerves strung out almost to snapping-point.
get
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The noise and the smell were getting on his nerves .
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You got your nerve to stand there and say that!
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Pam loves children but she doesn't like them when they're mobile, it gets on her nerves .
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His son got on his nerves all the time.
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She's got strong nerves , though.
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Angry Dear Angry: We can understand how these kids can get on your nerves .
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Funny thing how people can get on each other's nerves down here.
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As much as they got on her nerves , still she could not bring herself to talk behind their backs.
hit
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This attack was repeated again in 1987 in the Federation magazine, for the report had obviously hit a very raw nerve .
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Q: Why has that era hit a nerve with people now?
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The charge has hit a nerve , persuading the company to earmark 265 Levantine buildings for special restoration.
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Obviously there was a future in this business, they'd hit a nerve somewhere.
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It has hit a nerve that is already raw.
hold
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It requires holding your nerve , being totally committed and believing absolutely that's what you have got to do.
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Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that he should hold his nerve to the twin track of political progress and strong security?
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But Becker held his nerve and took the set in just 38 minutes.
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Redstar hold their nerve to win.
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Hodge held his nerve and the game was level.
keep
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This is where it can find a post-Thatcher purpose - and, if it keeps its nerve , votes as well.
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He has kept his nerve under very trying circumstances.
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She knew she had to keep her nerve .
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If he kept his nerve he would squeeze more money out of Bill Coleby.
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The Number-One had kept his nerve .
lose
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But after forty-eight hours of Berlin the Joyces had lost their nerve .
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Pro-student faculty members accused him of losing his nerve .
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One person stops and looks at me in a peculiar way. l lose the nerve to ask.
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It is one of those moments in a recital that could cause a singer to lose nerve .
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Here, she rang again quickly, before she lost her nerve .
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Nor had she lost her nerve , as evidenced by her conduct one night when Marian heard a strange noise.
settle
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Hignett then scored from the spot before Martijn Reuser settled the nerves of the East Anglian contingent.
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Lynn Bollington scored early on to settle the nerves and two Jo Green goals secured the win.
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She breathed deeply, trying to settle her nerves .
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Her hands had been clammy and her breathing irregular, but a small brandy had helped to settle her nerves .
steady
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And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves .
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They finally found him in a bar where he had gone to steady his nerves .
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That's if the woman ever prays, Isabel reflected, holding on to the random thought to steady her shaky nerves .
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He was killing time before his appointment, trying to steady his nerve .
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Next, drink the large Scotch to steady the nerves .
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Tamar took a deep breath to steady her nerves before she replied.
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Twice he nearly lost control and rested, steadying his nerve .
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Claudia drew a deep breath and tried to steady her nerves .
strain
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Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers, and the strain showed.
suffer
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The plaintiff suffered a trapped nerve after a hernia operation.
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They said the children were suffering from exam nerves .
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Developed for concert pianists suffering from nerves .
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He has no need for motivation and, interestingly, does not suffer from nerves .
test
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The next few days would test her nerve to the limit.
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Here the wide fairway beckons you seductively towards a second shot which will test your nerve .
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Nothing can test a professional's nerve and patience more than long waits between every shot.
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Gaveston was playing with him, testing his nerve in this cruel game.
touch
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Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated, there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves .
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The theatrical farce touches a nerve .
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The death of Phyllis Henley touched these nerves into life.
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I had finally touched a nerve .
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Our article touched a raw nerve .
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The subject of hawkers had touched a raw nerve .
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It was easy, therefore, to touch the sensitive nerve of nationalism.
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The wide current appeal of such music seems to touch a nerve of communal masochism.
try
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Claudia threw herself into the rehearsal for the show, trying to conquer her nerves by sheer will-power.
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Norma sat silently in the kitchen of their home, drinking coffee and trying to calm her nerves .
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Transport Secretary John MacGregor became the latest Cabinet ministers to try and calm nerves .
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He was killing time before his appointment, trying to steady his nerve .
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She breathed deeply, trying to settle her nerves .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a bundle of nerves
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Harry was a bundle of nerves the whole time his wife was in the hospital.
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Since she lost her job Rosie's been a bundle of nerves.
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She was a bundle of nerves.
nerve/muscle fibres
nerves of steel
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He had either nerves of steel or brains of custard, because he had fallen asleep during the last flight.
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It calls for consummate timing and nerves of steel .
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Raccoons these days, they have nerves of steel .
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The man had nerves of steel and didn't need anyone's good wishes.
strain every nerve
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Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers, and the strain showed.
touch/hit a raw nerve
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Our article touched a raw nerve.
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The subject of hawkers had touched a raw nerve.
your courage/will/nerve fails (you)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a three day siege the kidnapper's nerve failed and he gave himself up to the police.
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I injured a nerve in my foot playing volleyball.
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In a scary situation like that you need someone with plenty of nerve .
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It takes a lot of nerve to report a colleague for sexual harassment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All nerve fibres and terminals present seemed normal in number and morphology.
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But too much plaid gets on the nerves.
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Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
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Finally I got up the nerve to check him into the state treatment center up north.
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Hypothyroidism may affect equilibrium by its effect on the eighth cranial nerve and on the peripheral nerves.
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The Sporting News recently had the nerve to name Woods the most powerful man in all of sports.
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This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man.
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You got a lot of nerve .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a bundle of nerves
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Harry was a bundle of nerves the whole time his wife was in the hospital.
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Since she lost her job Rosie's been a bundle of nerves.
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She was a bundle of nerves.
nerve/muscle fibres
nerves of steel
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He had either nerves of steel or brains of custard, because he had fallen asleep during the last flight.
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It calls for consummate timing and nerves of steel .
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Raccoons these days, they have nerves of steel .
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The man had nerves of steel and didn't need anyone's good wishes.
touch/hit a raw nerve
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Our article touched a raw nerve.
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The subject of hawkers had touched a raw nerve.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the way home, pedalling furiously, she had been nerving herself for this confrontation.
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Ruth clenched her hands inside her cloak, nerving herself to follow him; but it was Fand who didn't move.